"Swans in the winter air A white perfection have"

-- W. H. Auden

#Winter Quotes #White Quotes #Swans Quotes

“I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.”
“Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.”
“Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.”
“The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.”

Source : "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army". Book by Catherine Merridale, p. 174, 2007.
“I loved being on the field playing and teaching softball. I didn't like the fact that a camp had my name on it and I didn't know the logistics of what was going on. I wanted to make sure I was involved in a camp that did things right.”
“If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His chief appeals to us to be our best? The Lord's Supper looks not back to our past with a critical eye, but to our future, with a hopeful one. The Master appeals from what we have been to what we may be. He bids us come, not because we are better than we have been, but because He wants us to be. To stay away because our hearts are cold is to refuse to go to the fire till we are warm.”
“My cultural roots are something illusive.”
“Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.”

Source : James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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